Ancient History Crossword

4. A skilled crafts-person; an important part of Mesopotamias middle class.
5. A city that, with its surrounding territory, forms an independent state.
8. A person who Buys and sells goods
11. Something some people thought was more important than war
12. Present day Mesopotamia
13. A long poem that tells the heroic deeds of a character
15. A professional writer writes things down. In Mesopotamia, talented boys learned to read and write cuneiform on clay tablets, and to do mathematics.
16. The land between the two rivers
17. Massive, Mespotamian pyramid-shaped, stepped tower and temple made of mud bricks.
18. King or queen;single head of a government

1. The capital of Babylonia
2. Patricles of fertile soil
3. Has a set of laws named after him
6. The name of it is similar to a season
7. Groups of countries united under the power of a single ruler.
9. First writing, created around 3000 B.C., created by the Sumerians, written with reed stylus on clay by trained scribes.
10. A society with cities, a central government, job specialization, social classes, writing, systems of trade, transportation, religion, and architecture.
14. The belief in many gods